Originally Posted by Searix
Not only that, but every match is essentially the bottom of the 9th tied with a guy on 3rd and 2 outs. There's no chance to normalize RNG in wow arena matches, if you're PMR vs double healer you often get ONE chance and ONE chance only to execute someone. And often there's roughly a 20% chance that it doesn't happen (kidney shot resist, CS resist, polymorph resist). That isn't a game of skill, its a game of luck.
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Frankly... Where's the fun in knowing that there's a 100% chance it goes through ?
As said above - eSports aren't about perfect skill determination. It's about entertainment. Knowing the outcome from the start is anything but entertaining.
You can see Phil Ivey having an absolutely atrocious evening, getting naught but a suited 7-2 as best hand the entire evening. Does that suck for him ? Yes. Does it make things more interesting than knowing who will win the second you know the line up ? Hell ye.
Is it fun knowing which team will win the second you see a RRD vs a PMR ? Not at all.
People are mixing up two different things here;
1) eSports for the participants (who dislike losing to a RNG - never heard anyone complain about winning due to one)
2) eSports for the crowd watching it.
Simply put - no.2 is far more important if Blizzard wants to make this Arena eSports thing a success.